Every small step forward in the peace talks is the crystallization of the great quarrel between the parties, and the United States and France have been fighting each other and threatening to withdraw from each other before the "peace treaty" is signed, which makes German Chancellor Stresemann and Foreign Minister Müller cry and laugh. Stresemann is embarrassed to always trouble Mr. President, and now, a Treasury Department alone is enough for Adrian to have a headache, not to mention that the president has to spend time with his wife and children these days.

In fact, Adrian is not as anxious as Stresemann imagined, on the contrary, it doesn't matter when he talks about it, as long as the "peace treaty" is not signed and takes effect, he has the right to organize a large number of manpower and material resources to carry out emergency mining in Lorraine, Saarland and other energy areas, in just a few months, he has achieved a lot of results, and he is very grateful to those heads of state who have less and more farts to mess around.

The Minister of Finance, Shacht, has not rested since he came out of the Hanseatic Palace, and he has been so busy for several days that he has not even returned home, because of the lack of manpower, he has to take care of several things, one is the emergency mining of minerals in the disputed area; the second is the nationwide industrial recovery; There was also a long-term plan for agricultural development, etc., except for Adrian to ask for someone, but he didn't want anyone to bother him.

On the construction site of the mining area, the spring sun is not hot, but Schacht is already sweating profusely, and the mining machine roars 24 hours a day, but he is not enough, jumping up and down all day long, either training people or looking for faults, even the most strict director of the Bureau of Industry and Mining can not stand it. There is no way, he is this character, in fact, everyone understands the mood of this minister very well. It also happened that there was something wrong with the tunneling machine, and the workers were urgently troubleshooting, but Shacht began to criticize him one by one as if he had fallen from the sky.

The assistant ran over and whispered in his ear, Shacht was surprised, and quickly took his helmet and walked down the mountain.

Eric? Adrian was sitting in his makeshift office, and Shacht poured water while saying to Adrian: "Your Excellency, please say hello next time, you can see how embarrassed I am." ”

Adrian smiled and said, "No, my minister, you don't look embarrassed at all, you are really embarrassed when you don't have money, understand?" I can give you the people you want, and I can give you as much as you want, but I can't satisfy you with the machinery you want, you have to figure it out yourself. As the country's money bag, I hope you can bulge it with the shortest and fastest speed. ”

The country is still in a semi-paralyzed state, and Schacht knows that Adrian will not be able to meet his needs for a while, but he has another countermeasure, but he wants to discuss with the president first: "You are right, Mr. President, I want to rearrange the domestic oil production, so that several key leading industrial and mining enterprises can take the lead in resuming work to meet the needs of the domestic mining industry. ”

Adrian agreed: "Very good idea, that's why I came to you." The slow progress of the peace talks is not a bad thing for Germany, but the French are now constantly putting pressure on all parties to the peace talks, including the plan to confiscate the machinery and equipment produced by all military industrial enterprises in Germany and transfer them overseas, in fact, to destroy them all. ”

Schacht didn't think about it, and said excitedly: "Your Excellency the wise president, I have written the draft plan for the post-war economic recovery of Germany, and if you don't come today, I will allow me to go to you at the time, which is great, I didn't expect us to think of going together." ”

Looking at Shacht's tired appearance, Adrian felt very uncomfortable, most of the people assigned to him at the moment were laymen, and he still needed to be seriously honed before he could fully enter the role. In fact, Adrian is not without such talents, but in order to avoid gossip from others, he can't use it casually, and this person is the president's wife, Dinah.

Schacht knew that Dinah was an expert in military machinery, but the president didn't say it, and he didn't dare to mention it, after all, how could people do such rough work for themselves with their current status.

Adrian encouraged Shacht and told him that he would always be his backing for his work, and then got in the car and left.

Among the delegates of the 27 countries, some happily stayed and waited for the final result, while others were disheartened and wanted to leave the meeting if they did not achieve their hopes.

France was entangled in the Lorraine question, and Germany felt torn between the two sides, as it repeatedly interfered with the private proposals between Germany and Britain and the United States. As a result, under the witness of US President Wilson, Britain and Germany, bypassing French Prime Minister Clemenceau, separately held careful negotiations on the ownership of the German colony and the terms of the two sides, and the final result was very satisfactory to both sides. Britain happily acquired all of Germany's overseas colonies, and also reached an acceptable ratio of 11:5 on the tonnage of naval vessels, according to which the total tonnage of French warships was inferior to that of Germany, and if the total tonnage of French warships exceeded the total tonnage of German warships, then Germany could add ships of the same class after consultation with Britain.

Germany's existing warships will be exchanged with the British, and the ships still under construction in the dockyards will continue to be refined and sold to the British, during which the British will send experts and technicians to do a good job of receiving and quality supervision.

Adrian is basically satisfied with such terms, Germany does not need to bite the bullet in tonnage, and there is no need for the national army, which is mainly land-based, to spend time on its own natural shortcomings, only when Germany is good at developing in the land field to a certain extent, will it take into account both, or even all three, and create a better navy. In this peace talks, Germany will be able to win at least 20 years of peaceful development, and the elite line of the navy and the extraordinary combat effectiveness of the air force will be gradually realized.

The British problem was solved.

Germany has always expressed its support for the "14-point program" of the United States, and this is also the result that President Wilson wants.

Forced by the economic pressure of Germany and the supply difficulties of Britain and the United States, Adrian ordered Defense Minister Brauchitsch to personally go to the prisoner of war camps, preside over and issue release certificates one after another, and let the British and American soldiers board ships one after another and sail away from the European continent to return to their respective countries.

At Clemenceau's repeated urging, the French question was indirectly interrogated by Adrian, and Stresemann read out the following conditions to the French side:

1. Lorraine belongs to Germany, but there is no border guard, and only the United Nations police station jointly established by Germany and France is responsible for regional security, and is jointly supervised by Britain and the United States. The mining rights of the Lorraine deposit are shared by the two countries, and the acquisition is 6% of France and 4% of Germany, for a period of 10 years. Neither Germany nor France were allowed to station troops on the Lorraine border.

2. There is no sovereignty dispute in the Saarland, it has always been German, and in order to show Germany's sincerity, there can be no border guards in the territory.

3. The garrison of Germany west of the Rhine did not exceed 10 divisions.

4. The German Army's tanks and design drawings and other technologies were handed over to France for disposal.

5. The German armed forces will sell all existing military production equipment.

In the eyes of the outside world, Germany has even ceased to cede its national sovereignty in order to seek world peace and stability, and the German president himself has amassed high international prestige by generously acting with righteousness and enduring humiliation in handling the affairs of various countries, and has set off a wave of peace in the world. Countries called Adrian a "friend of the world" and suggested that President Adrian be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In fact, it is irrelevant to Germany itself that Germany has done this, not to mention that the German people support their president, even if the clause of loss of sovereignty is rarely opposed in Germany, and everyone feels that the president endures France's unreasonableness for the sake of the German people to get out of the war as soon as possible.

The United States and Britain unexpectedly vigorously supported Germany on these terms, claiming that if France could not even accept such terms, it could only be regarded as forcing the war to continue, and France would not receive any international support.

On April 6, 1919, after nearly four months of peace talks, the four major powers finally signed the Berlin Peace Treaty along with other countries, officially ending World War I.